Jim Morrison Is God - A Love Her Madly MMP

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Happy MMP, even though I’m so late that it’s Monday night now.

Very interesting OP, Jahdra; it’s strange how something so small can trigger memories sometimes. When my Mom was dying of ovarian cancer in 2003, I began to write a memoir and fortunately was able to discuss quite a bit of my earliest memories with her. I’m glad that I wrote it down now and go back to read over it from time to time, although I confess that it remains unfinished. I only got to age 12 or so! And sometimes you find that your memories shift somehow; that what actually happened (according to someone else) is vastly different from your own memories. Another reason to write it down, and talk to others who were involved. Sorry for rambling!

Hoping that Rosie’s surgery went well, and that we’ll here some word soonish. It was a beautiful day today, although the rest of the week appears to be heading south (LOL sorry all you southerners, but that is -not- a good thing!); it will be getting cooler again and there’s rain in the forecast. April showers bring May flowers, right? :slight_smile:

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I hate when I get new books and don’t have time to read them.

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I could swear I posted earlier this evening. Guess I just read with interest and responded in my head. So you know that I wished everyone well and sent hugs and aws and all that as appropriate.

Hope you’re feeling better Nava. LiLi too.

And how many jobs did you apply for today, swampy? Don’t give me that look! You know I’m only asking because I[del]'m bossy and unable to resist[/del] care.

It’s kinda thundery out there. Think I’ll crawl under the covers and pretend I don’t hear anything.

GT

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Yeah, that’s bad, too. Never happens to me, though, because I have no life to speak of. Time is the one thing I seem to have plenty of. Want some?

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Good luck, Rosie!

Once again, MMP turned MNP (Monday night post). Work was OK, except for missing the bus home thanks to the stupid street-crossing sign that changed to WALK after the bus passed my stop, which was across the street. So I had to wait another half-hour for the next bus. When I arrived at my stop near the mall, I found a film shoot in progress at my local Acapulco restaurant, but didn’t get to see any actors, just crew people walking around.
When I arrived home, I found that Los Angeles County, in all its wisdom, has seen fit to summon me to jury duty tomorrow. I fear for the legal system.

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I too am doing a MNP.

Great OP, Jahdra! The aroma that is always a memory trigger for me is not even something I can describe. It’s something like a cross between some kind of berry, flower, and grass. It always reminds me of the country side around my Oma’s house in Germany. It’s very rare when I smell it, but when I do, it immediately takes me back to my Oma’s place. I consider this a good memory, fortunately.

I’m with FCM on the “set phasers for Friday” thing. Work wasn’t exactly pleasant today. Lots of stress in the office, so I just ducked and kept my head low. I wasn’t stressing, but it seems everyone around me is. Ugh! Also, I think I have unknowingly pissed off someone in my division. She has been rather cool towards me for awhile now. This is a marked change from how she used treat me, so I am not imaging things. I asked her about it when I first noticed, but she told me she was just stressing over something for work and kind of blew me off. I dunno, though, she’s still warm with everyone else. Sigh… why can’t people just be up front and honest? I want to know if I’ve done something to offend someone so I can fix it. Ya know, I’ve got friends and a life outside of work, but I guess the inner child in me still wants people to like me. Stupid, huh?

Rosie, I’m hoping your surgery went well and that Drae will be in here to let us know of your progress.

Swampy, good luck with job hunting. Here’s hoping that something really good will turn up soon for you.

Nava, I hope things improve for you in a big way soon. Really, it seems as though your health and your work life are just not going well, and I hate to see you seem so sad.

Biblio, best of luck to you on your test tomorrow. My fingers are crossed for you.

I guess I’ll see all you tomorrow night.

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Yeah, I could use about four or five more hours a day. And an extra day each week, one in which I don’t have to work. Sure you can spare it?

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Whaddaya mean, turning into? I’ve always been one. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Three. Two sound interesting, one I could stand if I had to. And now for that look. :dubious: :stuck_out_tongue:

Mornin’ y’all! I’ll be doin’ the same thing today as yesterday. Yeee and Haaa. I also need to mow yards betwixt today and tomorrow cause we’re promised chances of rain on Thursday and Friday. So, I think I’ll go mow a couple friends yards (it’s money!) later this morning when it gets all undewy (it’s a word). I hate mowin’ wet grass. Oh and put two new blades on my ridin’ mower. I know how to live.

rosie hope the surgery went well. Let us know as soon as ya can. Can you feel all the good doper and especially MMP cool kid vibes?

Bobbio I was a dirty young man, turned into a dirty middle-aged man and am now workin’ on bein’ a dirty old man. It’s kinda like a life plan. :smiley:

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Morning, everyone. The vibes worked- my skin has cleared up. Thanks.
Yesterday, just as I stepped out the door, the heavens opened. By the time I got three blocks, I was soaked. Umbrellas were well-nigh useless. And four blocks along there was a downed poor line.

It was a damned monsoon.

Actually, it was kind of fun. It was warm, and I don’t really mind being rained on if it’s warm. I did mind almost walking into the power line, though.

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Male. Yup.

American. Yup.

Sadly, not single. But that doesn’t preclude lap dances.

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Good morning, everyone!

My frugal inner self came out yesterday. I clipped coupons and got some V05 shampoo and conditioner for 77 cents a bottle. (They’re good stuff, but they no longer advertise as heavily as they used to, so they’re pretty cheap to start with.) I also got some BOGO laundry detergent, 2/$7 “fancy” roll-on deodorant (mine broke and is at the end of its usefulness) and Palmolive dishwashing liquid for 88 cents. I’m quite proud that I managed to only spend $16 including sales tax on all of this stuff, as, well, I’m cheap and I just spent a LOT of money on other house-setting-up stuff.

I just wonder how much of all this stuff I’m going to be able to fit in my car. It seems like every day I discover another handful of things to bring. Thank goodness my mother has offered to drive up whatever doesn’t fit in my car, because otherwise I’d have to make two three hour trips up to the new house.

LiLi, we could use a monsoon or two in this area. Lake Okeechobee is starting to dry up, so everyone within 200 miles of it is on water restriction. The thing is, this is normally the start of our wet season.

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Yes. Now to find a big enough box for it!

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rosie, I hope your surgery’s gone well.

Y’all, thanks for the good wishes. You’re the greatest.

Today The Nephew is going to the hospital. His right urether didn’t want to stay open; this is Not Really A Big Deal thanks to things like redundant design. His own great-grandma discovered at age 53 that she’d had this problem and one of her kidneys hadn’t worked at all for ages, she died at 96, official cause “cardiorespiratory stop,” i.e., being 96 and having nothing particularly wrong beyond DoB. So shortly after he was born, docs stuck some sort of catheter up the wee lad’s dick and tried to convince the urether to stay open; no go. They did a bit of surgery, where they cut a bit in his side, cut the urether over the lazy bit, and stuck it to the “new navel”; now that he’s 18mo, they’re going to take this part (which they’ve confirmed is the required length), stick it back onto the bladder and close the hole. He’s scheduled to have this done tomorrow.

And instead of being There and fussing over my Godkid and generally being nervous with everybody else, I’m stuck listening to Mom whine for - yesterday was over 2 hours - about how everybody is so nervous and SiL’s medical training just leads her to being able to come up with more morbous outcomes than your regular untrained parent and SiL’sDad (aka He Who Has ALS and can’t swallow solids any more) is assuming the kid is going to die in surgery (Mom was silent for over a minute when I pointed out I’ve never met a cop who was an optimist, seeing everything black seems to be a requirement for the job) and she wants to help (which means boss people around) but they won’t let her and SiL intends to be with The Kid 24/7 (those rooms get a Mom’s Bed) - which I pointed out is exactly the same SiL’sMom does when SiL’sDad is at the hospital, and Mom had to admit she’s got a friend who’s the same way, so there. But anyway why the heck am I here :stuck_out_tongue: Oh yeah, the pay.

I’m going home from May 12th to May 19; one of the things I’d thought of doing was take my current savings and stick them into my mortgage’s principal (0% penalty for early payment), but instead I’ve been looking at the possibility of taking a degree in Translation. Back when I was in college there was no such thing, but of course since they got invented it’s the one that’s required to work as a translator. The entrance exam for the uni I want isn’t until June, so I might still be in time to sign up; they’re offering a master’s for the first time this year, adressed to people who have previous degrees at the licenciatura level (I have one and two master’s). They say it may be possible for some students to do the master’s in one year; I’ve asked whether it could be possible to attempt this for someone who’s used to heavy workloads and who’s been translating and interpreting technical stuff (what I’d want to major in) for 13 years. Looking at the syllabus, a lot of it sounds like I could bypass it if they let me. We’ll see. Knowing me, nothing might come of this, but I’ve been toying with the idea of getting that kind of degree for years. And really, when the thought of going to work sends you into tears, it’s time to change bloody jobs. Or at least, to take a college entrance exam and if you pass it, hand in your letter :stuck_out_tongue:

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That noise you heard? The faint sound of thumping that kept you awake last night? Yeah, sorry. That was me putting a dent in my desk with my forehead.

In the ongoing battle to get my computer working properly, you see, the computer is winning. The bright spot – if you want to call it that – is that I have probably pinpointed the culprit. On a reboot late yesterday afternoon the system refused to properly boot. This has been a recurring theme lately, and I had presumed that this was a potential problem with my Asus motherboard’s BIOS, as I had read some people were having trouble getting a Serial ATA RAID array to work reliably. I don’t run a RAID array (at the moment, anyway), but being that it’s SATA-related I figured there were probably some compatibility issues with the (still relatively new) SATA standard. Flashing my BIOS caused some other problems though so I went back to the original BIOS until I read up more about it.
Last night though, it wouldn’t boot back up. No matter how I cajoled, fiddled or cursed, whether normal or safe mode or directory services restore mode or debug mode, it just. would. not. boot. It would get so far, and then would start accessing the hard drive in perpetuity to apparently no useful end. I even let it run for half an hour or so, on the off chance that it was running some kind of scandisk operation that just happened not to have any screen output to tell me it was doing so. (Hey, Windows has surprised me with its oddities before) But I got fed up when it just wasn’t getting anywhere.
So, I stick in the WinXP disk, boot from it, force a HAL mode (owing to its odd inability to properly detect that I have a dual core processor) and perform a repair install. While it dutifully copied all the relevant files and rebooted properly to begin the repair process, it flatly refused to actually boot into that process. It just kept getting stuck in a spontaneous reboot cycle.
Several hours later I hang up the boxing gloves and install a fresh copy of XP on a different partition. It was about at this point, too, that I noticed the beginnings of a faint, high-pitched noise coming from the hard drive, the sort a slightly worn bearing would make when it’s spinning at 7200RPM, or a metal cutting blade on an angle grinder might make when it’s just grazing a piece of PVC pipe. Understand that this is a 500GB SATA-300 drive I bought about a year ago and paid $500 for (which I can now get for under $200). I’m naturally rather upset. But at least now I am pretty confident that this is what’s been causing most of the problems all along, and the drive does have a 5 year warranty, so that’s another thing I’m going to have to RMA. Meanwhile I’ve got to call my local computer store and see if they’ve got a 500GB SATA-300 drive in stock so I can buy one this weekend and ghost everything from the old drive on to the new one before I RMA it.

So, now my home computer is running on a bare minimum compliment of software. (No point installing more than necessary since I plan to be up on a new drive and the old Windows this weekend)

I can’t believe the horrible luck I’ve had with this latest upgrade, though. So far, that makes one hard drive, one power supply and two 1GB sticks of RAM I’ve had to RMA in the past two months. This is not including the ($750) video card that died last summer, nor the mouse whose receiver I stupidly killed last week. I think in less than a year I’ve spent about $2000 just replacing supposedly top-quality components that just crapped right the hell out. Just where the hell has all the QC gone? It’s like “you get what you pay for” needs to be updated to say “No matter what you pay for it, it’s still going to be crap.”

Frustration, thy name is technology.

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I hate to say it, but we need a tropical storm or light hurricane to move up the coast. Despite the noreaster two weeks ago, Mayberry is still short of rain by 4 inches, and the Dismal Swamp is mighty dry.

We had 3 forest fires over the weekend, but none were in my district or mutual aid areas.

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We’ve had our first appreciable rain of the month overnight and this morning - we’re not exactly short of water but April has been a pretty dry month so far.

Not much of any excitement going on here though, I had three hours of customer service training this morning which is three hours of my life I’ll never get back again. It’s great, sitting in a committee room listening to someone talking at you for hours about stuff that should be common sense to most people. Oh, don’t you just envy me so much?

When do we expect to hear about Rosie?

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Morning everyone! Must run, have Shakespeare’s Sonnets class to go to. Appropriate noises and hugs and sympathy to all.

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Good morning, it’s back to work day. It’s warm and cloudy, and we might get some rain. I think I might Roomba before work.

nava. I hope you find something, there’s nothing worse than a crappy job.

bobbio, there was a forest fire in Johnson County yesterday, and the wind blew it into a tire dump. :eek:

Mork, I went a bought an external drive, just so I have a ghost of a chance when HAL 900 goes wonky.

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Good thoughts headed out to **rosie **and Nava. And good job hunting thoughts for swampy.

This afternoon I’m going to visit a horse farm to see if I want to take riding lessons there. I took lessons back when I was in high school but then didn’t have access to horses or the money to take lessons until now. But… now I live in a city so the closest horse farm is like an hour away. So I’m going to visit but I have to decide whether it’s worth driving out there every week. Hmm… we’ll see. I really want to get back into riding. I’m excited at least to go and visit.